Round 1 Shannon Griffin Picture Books to YA Brenda Beikert Goodreads Pamela Thompson Books by Pamela @MostlyMcLeod Julie Williams Reading by the Pond @juliewilliams89 Stacy Mozer It’s All About the Journey @SMozer Rajiv Ganesan Rajiv’s Reviews and YouTube @RajivsReviews Genevieve Ford @GenevieveFord1 Round 2 Jamie Dieterle The Never-ending TBR @justjaymied @Neverending_TBR Gina Reba Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers @GRgenius Mark Buxton …
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction
Round 1 Sondra Eklund Sonderbooks @Sonderbooks Jennifer Miller RaiseThemRighteous @jlmiller516 Beth Mitchell Imaginary Friends @BMitchellBooks Debbie Tanner The Booksearch @imtanner2 Charlotte Taylor Charlotte’s Library @charlotteslib Round 2 Jenna Grose Falling Letters @fallingletters Rebecca Herzog Sloth Reads @slothreads Nicole Hewitt Feed Your Fiction Addiction @NicoleMHewitt Rosemary Kiladitis Mom Read It @roesolo Benjamin Martin Tales of an Elementary School Librarian @mrbenjimartin
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Elementary/Middle Grade Non-Fiction
Round 1 Sandy Brehl Unpacking Picture Book Power @pbworkshop and @SandyBrehl Earl Dizon www.earldizon.com @EarlDizonWriter Carrie Butler Becker Other Women’s Stories Nancy Bo Flood The Pirate Tree Sarah Prineas Prairie Lights Kids @sprineas Carol Wilcox Carol’s Corner @carwilc Reshama Deshmukh Stacking Books @stackingbks Round 2 Heidi Bee Roemer Steam Powered Poetry @poetweet4 D. …
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Easy Reader/Early Chapter Books
Round 1 Kelly Karsner Clark Kidlit Underground @kidlitundrgrnd Sheri Howard Lobit Education Village Library Mindy Rhiger Proper Noun @mindyreads Kathy Ellen Davis www.instagram.com/wheeliegoodbooks/ and www.instagram.com/kathyellendavis/ @kathyellendavis Pam Jones Nill pjonesnill.com @pjonesnill Mary Kate Bolinder The Story Garden @the_storygarden Patricia Timbrook www.patriciatimbrook.wordpress.com @PATtimbrook Round 2 Claire Noland http://afieldtriplife.com/ @claire_noland Miranda Rosbach Bookbloom @bookbloom Terry Doherty thereadingtub @thereadingtub Lauren Bercuson …
2019 Cybils Panelists and Judges: Fiction Picture Books and Board Books
Round 1 Valerie Byrd Fort Library Goddess @librarygoddess Kirsti Call Kirsti Call/Writer’s Rumpus @kirsticall Nicole Levesque Bluestocking Thinking (Blog and Instagram) @BlueSockGirl Maria Marshall The Picture Book Buzz & STEM Tuesday @MariaMarshall_ Deb Nance Readerbuzz @debnance Lynne Marie Pisano My Word Playground / Literally Lynne Marie @Literally_Lynne Cheryl Vanatti Reading Rumpus @cherylvanatti Round 2 Jana Eschner JanaTheTeacher @JanaTheTeacher Jilianne Hoffmann …
Meet the 2019 Cybils Team: Gary Anderson, YA Fiction Chair
Although I was a military brat for a big chunk of my childhood, I finished growing up in Iowa (or maybe not at all). I became a high school English teacher in 1980, and 2019-2020 will be my fortieth year in the classroom. Most of that was spent at William Fremd High School in Palatine, Illinois (1987-2014) where I served …
Meet the 2019 Cybils Team: Pam Margolis, YA Speculative Fiction Chair
Pam’s been an avid reader all of her life. In fact, she was probably in line for a book when they handed out map skills. Growing up she loved the classics but now that she’s a grown up she has learned to love all genres of books, especially books for kids and teens. Her passion is helping kids find books …
Meet the 2019 Cybils Team: Mel Schuit, Graphic Novels Chair
Mel Schuit is a children’s book author, illustrator, reviewer, and marketer with an MA in Children’s Literature, an MFA in Writing for Children, and a BA in Studio Art. She talks about children’s book illustration and design at Let’s Talk Picture Books, which started as a way for her to catalog the illustration styles and recurrent themes she found in …
Meet the 2019 Cybils Team: Charlotte Taylor, Elementary/Middle Grade Speculative Fiction Chair
Charlotte Taylor has been fan of fantasy all her life, and spent her childhood rejecting her sisters’ importunings to come play in favor of peaceful reading. She still spends as much time as possible reading (mostly middle grade speculative fiction, but other genres too, because she wants to read All the Things), but she is hampered her day job as …
Meet the 2019 Cybils Team: Alex Baugh, Middle Grade Fiction Chair
The very first book Alex remembers really loving was Anne of Green Gables, which was then followed by countless others. She has been a Middle Grade Fiction second round judge for the past five years and always forward to participating in the Cybils. She is also a technology geek and originally began teaching Information Technology in school. Eventually, she found …